A mother bear’s protective nature with her young is so well-known that we use its descriptive term in everyday language - “Momma bear.” In this adorable video, a mother bear whose cubs are in trouble gets some help from some human friends.
Preparing Your Child Physically, Mentally, and Emotionally for Back To School
August 08, 2012
Online Webinar
Family involvement in school is crucial to our children's success, but for many busy parents, making time to support academic success can be a challenge.
Free webinar presented by Flora Sanchez, Senior Trainer/Consultant to Search Institute and Vision Training Associates.
Zero to Three's grandparenting resources include information on supporting healthy child development as well as tools for addressing some of the more common challenging situations that come up when raising young children.
Scholars and practitioners from around the globe will present the latest in knowledge, research, educational strategies, curriculum, and parent education and support models.
A new policy paper from Zero to Three, Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers, examines how staffed family child care (FCC) networks are uniquely positioned to improve the quality of care that infants and toddlers receive in FCC settings. It lists effective practices and shares examples of successful staffed FCC networks. This paper offers guidance for how states can maximize partnerships to integrate staffed FCC networks in early childhood systems. It concludes with action steps and state policy recommendations for implementing a staffed FCC network.
Zero to Three's new report, Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health, highlights the scientific evidence for infant-early childhood mental health (I-ECMH) policies; examines issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I-ECMH services; and proposes a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.
The American Family Assets Study from the Search Institute highlights critical strengths in families that contribute to positive outcomes for both kids and parents, introduces a new framework of Family Assets which focus on healthy relationships and practices in families, and emphasizes strengths that are relevant to a wide diversity of families in America.
Are you a gay, adoptive father to a young child(ren)? If so, you are invited you to participate in doctoral dissertation research on resiliency among gay-fathered families.
